awards program and wanted to congratulate will patterson, david miller, dj irwin and patricia for receiving awards that night. and then finally, i wanted to thank president mendoza-mcdonnell for residing over the 12th annual sfusd retirement celebration which she helped start with then mayor gavin newsome and then dennis kelly. it was real eye a -- really a wonderful event. >> vice president cook. >> i wasn't at the last board meeting, but i wanted to shout out to all the organizers of the black family day that was hosted at willie brown a few weeks back. it was a great event. i got to serve on a panel with incredible young people. i just appreciate the multiple years that that event has been

hosted. also, commend the educators for the really wonderful he are tirement -- retirement event that i attended last week -- retirement/scholarship event, really, really inspiring evening, and congratulations to all of our educators that have retired and our students going off to multiple four-year schools. i commend your success and service to our district. >> thank you. commissioner murase. >> we didn't read the names of the scholarship winners. i would like to do that quickly. [ reading names ]

>> thank you. i just have a couple of announcements also. this thursday, may the 11th, we're going to be welcoming a life-sized ceramic panda which was the winner of a competition that was hosted by the chang do sister city friendship city committee. it was something that the mayor put together as part of their relationship building between china and the u.s. and the winner came from dian die finesn

helementary school. it's been replicated and it's now almost a four foot panda that was replicated by a famous artist. so it's going to be displayed in the foyer of the element real estatelementaryschool. they are going to name it edwin, which i thought was very sweet. we also are going to be honoring five teacher of the year awards and four principals. we're going to be honoring a para-educator which we're really excited about. that's happening on may the 18th and the giants will be hosting the teachers for teacher appreciation at a home plate ceremony with the giants playing

cincinnati on may the 14th. then we will be also honoring -- providing $1,000 scholarships to students in sfusd or former sfusd students currently in college with scholarships and we'll be hosting that on may the 2 3rd. any other announcements? all right. thank you. great. our next item is the calendar of committee meetings. we have a standing ad hoc and joint committee meetings coming up. budget and commissioner services, commissioner haney. >> it's at the end of the month. i don't have the exact date. the 30th. okay. >> thank you. wednesday, may 30th is budget and business services buildings and grounds will be monday may the 28th at 6:00 p.m.

curriculum and program, vice president cook? we have it monday, may 21st. that one will be at 5:30 p.m. rules, commissioner sanchez. >> june 4th, 6:00 p.m. >> ad hoc committee on student assignment is to be determined. labor relations, vice president cook. >> thursday, may 24th at 5:00 p.m. >> and the ad hoc school district city college joint committee will be thursday, june 14th, at 6:00 p.m. and it will be held here at sfusd this time. section m is other informational item. there are none tonight. section n is a memorial adjournment and there are none tonight. and then we have superintendent matthew. >> i made the announcement that we would be making a donation in the memory of your mom.

we collected from the central office managers and central office administrators. i want to thank you all for stepping up, and this donation will be made to the filipino american development foundation which provides scholarships to filipino students in $1,000 in memory of your mom. we just want to let you know that. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. i wanted to thank all the staff that contributed to that. my mother finished third grade and raised a family of 7 and brought us over and never had the opportunity to finish school or even go on to college. she saw several of her children be able to go on to college. this was just a really wonderful gift in her memory. so i just want to thank

everybody who contributed to a scholarship that will be given to a young person and i'm -- we were thinking about what characteristics we wanted this young person to have, and as you heard when we did the adjournment in her memory, she was an athlete, and she was very committed to serving others and so those will be the characteristics we'll be looking for. thank you very much for the contribution and for helping a young person get on to college which is an opportunity my mother never had. so thank you. okay. so at this time, we're going to take public comment from those who have submitted speaker cards for closed session items and then we'll have some time just before public comment -- i'm sorry -- just before closed session to hear the comments. so section o we're going to go

into closed session. so the board will now go into closed session. thus, i call for a recess of the regular meeting. i know that there were several family members here or parents and community members from cleveland that are still here. so if we can have -- let's see. so we're going to clear the room. if you're from cleveland -- >> excuse me, president. i just want to reiterate. we have to take public comment in public even though it's on personal matters. >> okay. all right. so this is a new process for us. so if you are here to make public comment on personal matters, that will be heard publicly. so i'm just going to read off the names of the cards that i had earlier, and if you are here to make public comment and i

have your name, would you please step up and before we go into closed session we're going to hear public comment. so myrna vasquez, maria gonzales, johana, evelyn rodriguez, c strong, evelyn, martinez, david alam, n, elizabeth castro smith, and doris chan. are any of those people here. if you are, please come forward. we can't invite you to closed session. it has to be only the board.

>> so just to be really clear, people that are going to be speaking for clos closed sessio- you have the opportunity to speak about if there was a comment that you wanted to make about a principal from cleveland and then this opportunity now is to speak about a teacher that is on our agenda for closed session. so if you're hear to speak about a teacher, a teacher that's on the agenda, then we'll allow you to make comments. if this is to reiterate or make another comment about the principal, this is not the appropriate time to do that. that was in the previous opportunity. so if you're here to speak about the teacher on our agenda,

please -- [ inaudible ] >> how many are here to speak on this item? >> this is very different for us. i've been on this board 12 years and we don't typically do did thido itthis way -- please moved if you want to speak so that i havihave a better sense who have wants to speak. in our previous process, we would also only allow five minutes for the entire discussion in closed session. so if you can show me how many people would like to make a comment, i'll have a better sense of how much time to

provide you. okay. so there's roughly about ten of you. i'm going to give you ten minutes to speak which is double the time renormally provide. so if you could just be brief in your comments and just go one by one and let's go ahead and go forward on this. thank you. >> good evening, everybody. sorry. i'm going to take less than the ten minutes, but thank you for giving me the ten minutes. i've been here for hours ever since you guys started. i'm just here because as a concerned parent, it came to my attention that two very wonderful teachers are going to be pretty much fired at the end of this school year. we -- me as one of the parents, i'm just concerned because we never got a letter or they haven't given us a reason why. it's sad because both of my children have these two teachers and they've came home crying that they think it's so unfair that why is it that these

teachers are being fired when they think they're amazing and they have helped them a lot. both of my daughters are good in math, but because of this teacher, they've gotten even better. they really have gotten up there. to them, it means a lot. every time they come home, you know what i learned today? i learned fractions or this or this. my third grader, i told her let's go to support your teacher. she didn't want to come. she said it was devastating for her to come today because she said that if she would have heard that her teacher was getting fired, she was going to cry. so, i mean, i just want to put it out there. even a child, if they're 6, 7 years old, they have feelings, you know. i can't talk for them because i'm not there with the teachers. i can't tell you what they experienced, but me being born and raised here, i was part of the school system, and i can say it has really changed a lot. it's not what it used to be back in the day.

it's sad to see it's degrading, unfortunately. i hope we can give the best for our children. that's all. thank you. >> thank you. >> so you have a short amount of time. so be as brief as possible, please. and we would like to allow the students to come up and speak first if they could. i know that you have been waiting. we would love to hear from the students first. and i appreciate that you're not mentioning the teacher's names. if you would continue to refer to the teacher as just the teacher. thank you. >> hello. my name is juan, and i don't want one of my third grade teachers to leave. if he does, i'll miss him real bad because he helped me with a

lot of math in third grade. when i'm in fourth grade right now, i moved up a whole bunch of things that he teached me. i'm trying -- my parents are trying to keep -- try to stay because even my little sister wants him to be her third grade teacher. i really -- i would really miss him if he left because he teached me a lot of stuff that i didn't know in third grade, a whole bunch of words that i didn't know about that i was going to learn in fourth grade. thank you. >> thank you.

[ applause ] >> hi. i am here to speak in honor of my two favorite teachers -- i can't say her names. i feel sad they're going to get rid of two of my favorite teachers, and it's really unfair because they don't deserve to get fired. thank you. [ applause ] >> hi. my name is nathan, and i'm pretty sad that they're going to fire my two favorite teachers that i had, one in third grade and one math. so my teacher in third grade taught me a lot of stuff. he taught me a lot of stuff that i didn't know.

i've been growing up, and my math teacher has been teaching me a lot of math. my math teacher taught me a lot throughout the years. mithered gradmy -- my third gras well. i'm sad they're going to get dismissed and they're not going to be teach them. i really, really like for them to stay to teach. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> [speaking

spanish] >> good evening. i'm the father of nathan, the child that just talked. the reason i'm here talking to you is because we have been having a lot of problems with the -- i'm hoping you take action about the problem we're having with the new principal that you assigned to our school. he's getting rid of a lot of the teachers that we like, as you heard. >> i'm sorry. are you speaking about a specific teacher because we're

not going to be talking about a principal. this needs to be on the agenda item. [speaking spanish] [ stand by ]

>> all right. that's not an item that's on the agenda, so thank you. so just another reminder that we're only hearing items that are on the agenda, so comments about the principal or other questions about the school will not be permitted. thank you. [speaking spanish ]

>> my name is teresa jano. i'm a mother at cleveland, and i see here that we are sad, i'm sad, the children are sad because we're losing these teachers. i don't know really right now if they're being fired or not. all i know is that they might be leaving, and the kids are really sad. my kids have been with these teachers for a long time. my fifth grader has had these teachers for a long time, and really, they're -- from what i understand, they are letting the math teacher go because he doesn't speak spanish. and honestly, a math teacher doesn't need to speak spanish to teach math.

[speaking spanish ] >> and i want to know -- i want to know if there's a possibility for the teachers to stay in our school because they are really good teachers. and it's not just because i'm saying it. a lot of people say it. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. [speaking spanish ]

>> good evening. my name is -- >> i'm sorry. i'm going to stop you for just one second because this is a comment about the principal again. so this is not a discussion about the principal. [speaking spanish ] >> but that doesn't make any sense because everything that's happening is because of this new person. >> but the discussion that

we're going to be having isn't about the principal, and if we're going to be having a discussion about -- about a personnel issue with regard specifically to the teacher. so if you'd like to make a comment about the teacher, i'll allow that. [speaking spanish ] >> so then i'm going to ask how come the teachers at the school, punishing the kids? i think kids go to school to

study and play. and you put your kids in the hands of people that you trust, that you trust that they're going to treat the children properly. but then, they are punished, and they are traumatized, and i'm wondering why. >> okay. thank you. so i'm going to allow one more speaker. so i'm going to allow one more speaker because of the translation. [speaking spanish ]

>> good evening. my name is guadalupe hernandez. i am a mother from cleveland, and i have been at this school for five years. and i'm very sad because several of these teachers that are leaving -- and i don't know if it is because they are being fired or if it is because they are retiring, but they're being let go. and some of these teachers have been my kids, my son's teacher, and he's been crying and telling me that it's not fair for them to let go of these teachers. and i have to say that these teachers that are being let go, they are exemplary teachers. they have been very good

teachers. [speaking spanish ] >> and unfortunately because of the situation, i have to take my kid out of the school, and i think this is a very sad situation because my child isn't going to be able to finish this school year, graduate this school year the school where he started school. [speaking spanish ] >> and i decided to take him out because i don't think it's good, and it's not fair for my child to be crying because his teachers are being letting go -- let go. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. so we've heard from several parents. i'm going to allow one teacher to speak, so if there is one

teacher that hasn't spoken, i'm going to allow them to speak, and then, we're going to wrap this up. >> hello. thank you, board of education for giving me the opportunity to speak before you. my name is david aleman, and i am currently a bilingual teacher at cleveland elementary. to tell you a little bit about myself and why i'm in education, my parents were immigrants from mexico, and they were migrant workers. i come from a family of 15 children. my parents knew the value of an education, and they didn't want that life for us, being a migrant worker. so they ensured that all 15 of us graduated from the same high school. 15 kids. now, eight of my siblings are either in education or teachers. two are principals, so the

value of education is something that my family truly, truly knows, and i try to instill that into my students. so i've been at cleveland since 2011, first as a bilingual paraprofessional, and then as a third grade teacher. this is my third year as a third grade teacher. in all my time at cleveland, i've never been the subject of disciplinary actions. as a first year teacher, my students' writing scores were the highest of three third grade level classes. furthermore, the third grade team that i'm a part of, they've seen progress in their math scores for three consecutive years. so considering all this, i'm just trying to understand why i am the subject of nonreelection.

this year, i was voted on the ubc committee, and i have to say, and what i really want the board of education to understand is that my students are at the center of me being a teacher. if they are not the first priority of the decisions being made at my school, then i know something is wrong. and i've spoken up and been vocal about the changes and the decisions made at cleveland since the new principal came at the beginning of the school year. now, what i really try to think of as a teacher is i try to think this, like, on a daily basis: how are my decisions -- what am i doing? how can i help my students to be better students? >> i'm going to ask you to wrap up, mr. aleman. thank you. >> thank you. i just wanted to understand that being a teacher has been a dream of mine, and it's been

the loveliliest work. and i so appreciate the students and staff members that have come out from cleveland to support me, and i just would like to continue my work fore the school district. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you. so at this time, we're going into section o, which is closed session, so the board will now go into closed session. so if i could please ask all of our guests in the room to clear the room so that we can go into closed session. thank you.

>> thank you. thank you. so we are back in our regular board meeting. this is our readout of our may 18, 2018 closed session in the matter of victim ho, case number 2018208366. no action was taken tonight. in the matter of uesf chinese bilingual teachers, the board by a vote of six ayes and one absent ratified -- in the matter of uesf griefance elizabeth sin chair, the board by a vote of six ayes and one

absent rad identifies an agreement to resolve the griefance and pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matter of pm versus sfusdoh, the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent gives the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount. in the matters of db versus sfus d&a t versus sfusd the board by a vote of six ayes and one absent gave directions to the general counsel. the board by a vote of six ayes one absent approved the contract for one assistant superintendent, the board by a vote of 6 ayes and one absent approved the contract for one director. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent approved the contract for two executive directors. the voboard by a vote of six

ayes, one absent approved the contract for one supervisor, the board by a vote of six ayes and one absent approved issuing notice that three supervisor contracts will not be renewed. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent, approved issuing notice that two program administrator contracts will not be renewed. the board by a vote of six ayes, one absent approved issuing notice that one executive director contract will not be renewed. the board by a vote of six ayes one absent approved the release of 18 protectionary zero certified employees -- probationary zero certified employees. and the board by a vote of 6 ayes one absent approved the release of 14 probationary one

certificated employees. this meeting is adjourned. thank you. good night. >> good morning everyone and thank you for joining us.

my name is beth stokes and i want to welcome you here. the supportive housing home to 134 single adults. i'm the executive director of the pittsburgh -- episcopal nudity services of san francisco. one of the leading providers of supportive housing. we are committed to finding solutions to end homelessness by helping individuals and families with the tools necessary to exit homelessness. including pathways to housing, workforce development, and permanent supportive housing. of the formerly homeless residents who access our services, 98 % remain permanently housed. ninety-eight %. so we are very proud of that. here we are you currently are, we have the highest risk and most vulnerable san franciscans. this five-story property was completed in 2,009 with development funds from the city and county of san francisco. it is one of the best examples

of solutions to ending homelessness in our community. we are proud to partner with the city of san francisco to end homelessness and i'm very, very pleased this morning to introduce you to the honourable mayor, mark farrell. thank you. [applause] >> mayor farrell: thank you best. i think the house for hosting us this morning here in san francisco. you know, we do not have to remind anyone why we are here this morning. why we are here today for this announcement. homelessness is a crisis in the city of san francisco. our city government needs to step up. our city, our region, our state, our country is dealing with this tragedy every single day on the streets. the roots of the epidemic are complex. there is no single solution to solve the issue. we need to pursue a wide variety of initiatives. we need to fund programs that have been proven to work. we need to be flexible to fund

programs that will work. we need to measure ourselves by the success of the individuals living on our streets today. and when they get off a street and get into shelters and onto their own 2 feet and onto better lives. today, i am announcing approximately $30,000 in funding to address the homeless crisis in san francisco. first of all, i'm doubling down on the homeward bound -- bound program. this initiative helps struggling individuals with family members and loved ones. i know elements of this program may seem controversial, but we have to acknowledge the fact that it is here in san francisco where we have had a very effective program. as mayor of the city i'm connected to programs that are working and making a difference in their lives with getting people off the streets of san francisco.

last year, 900 individuals used project homeward bound and of that total, lesson from four % turn to the city of san francisco. this program works and is having a dramatic effect and we are doubling the funding for this program. of those individuals that have been helped by project homeward bound, a man is here today from his home in reno. at one point he was unsheltered and struggling with mental health here on the streets of san francisco. after he spent time at the general hospital, we were able to connect contacts, and connect them back home with his family. he arrived last month and sergio and the rest of his family are thrilled to have him back and he is making progress daily. that is what compassion looks like to me. without programs that we are

funding to make a difference in individual lives. for are resilient individuals who have overcome great hardship, this budget package will fund projects to help to make sure they will never be on the streets of san francisco. we are adding $2 million to fund 150 new supportive housing units across the city of san francisco. and $2 million for the opening and operations of a building, a site with 50 supportive housing units in san francisco. with those new units brought online, san francisco will boast more than 7,000 permanent supportive housing units and here just right here in our city. the most per capita of the city in our entire country. along with adding new units, i will be investing one and a half million dollars to provide additional services to these units. it will provide assistance for our communities and provide the resources necessary to help individuals who are coming off the streets.

most importantly, and most substantially connect this budget package will include $50 million for new navigation centres. helping support our new facilities here. we will provide a million dollars for programs for transitional eyes use. a population that has been dramatically affected with homelessness in san francisco. we are specifically wanting to address this. we are providing new access points to provide resources, supports and services for families and residents juggling with homelessness on the streets. this is a comprehensive package. this is about making sure we create new exits off the streets through temporary shelters and permanent supportive housing. it's also making sure we provide the resources necessary to stem the tide of new people becoming homeless in san francisco. we will not solve homelessness overnight in our city. but in san francisco we are

investing for the future click as mayor, it has been one of my biggest priority since week one in office and i am incredibly proud of the policies that we have moved forward with in the city. we are going to continue to put a foot on the gas pedal until my last day in office. this funding package will ensure the city of san francisco, for years to come will have the resources necessary to continue to address the issue on the streets of san francisco. we are not going to do this alone. takes the help of community leaders, of organizations and individuals willing to come off the street, but we are making progress and we are making life better for those that are on our streets and we are making life better for san francisco residents. with that i want to thank you all for being here today i don't want to bring up to the podium the person who is really leading the charge here and has been doing great work for our city of san francisco and will be doing so for years to come. our director for homelessness and supportive housing. [applause]

>> thank you mr mayor. i'm here with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. first i want to thank san francisco community services for hosting this event and for all the amazing work that they do. we are very lucky to have an organization like ecs and san francisco and we are also very lucky to have them at the helm of the ecs. they are doing an amazing job leading this organization as the backbone provider and homelessness response system. i also want to thank our staff who are here with a few folks are here from the homeward bound program to, every day, are out hoping to reunite family and people who are homeless with family and friends who are able to take them back into their lives. the chair of the local homeless correlating board, and then other hs h. staff. thank you for being here and think all of you for joining us but mostly i want to thank mayor farrell for this budget proposal

that he is putting forward. we are very excited about the fact that this budget represents and really reflects the work that we laid out in our strategic plan when our department was created by mayor lee. we spent a year figuring out what can we do to best address homelessness and san francisco? we laid out a clear plan with specific goals. this budget practice really reflects what we see as the priorities that were developed not only by staff members and also in consultation with our nonprofit providers and advocates and people expressing homelessness themselves. we are very grateful to see this expansion that focuses on three important areas that will help us, number 1 reduce unsheltered homelessness and opening up more navigation centres. to end homelessness by providing rent subsidies and supportive housing sights.

we really appreciate mayor if there -- farrell. supporting 50 people every week exit homelessness through a variety of programs. but every week hundreds of people replace those folks get off the streets. we need to figure out how can we use programs like homeward bound, eviction prevention, flexible housing grants for people so we can help folks get back to the last safe place where they were staying and reduce the number of newly homeless people in the city. this does all o is all of thosed we are very excited. i'm looking forward to being able to dig in and start doing this work once the budget is approved by the board of supervisors and signed off by the mayor. thank you very much. is now my pleasure, we have two hs h. clients in the house with us as well. one in the house and one on the tv screen. first i would like to introduce mr williams, first of all, and i want to thank him for our service to the country.

he served in the navy for eight years. helping defend our country and ended up homelessness -- homeless but we are very pleased it is now he is living in the operant residence which is by this property which is housing that we put together for people who are veterans and to have also served the country and military and are experiencing homelessness and needed a hand up to get off the streets. mr williams moved in recently and joined me i join me in welco the podium. [applause] >> hello. i am a san francisco native. i am a u.s. navy vet and i live in the bay area predominantly most of my life. i stay at supportive housing for the past few months and i am just happy, you know, to have a

place to stay. i am benefiting from trying to get being put in a situation where i can get my life back together. it's looking good. i wish it was more programs like this to help people, you know, change their lives. thank you. >> thank you mr williams and fortunately, with this budget we will have more housing like the auburn, it is very close to the auburn and what it we are excited it will be opening up very shortly. also we talked about the homeward bound program and the mayor made reference to mr bravo who is over there on the tv screen. he is one of the many, many individuals whose families participate in the homeward bound program over 850 people a year and all of those

experiences are unique and i will tell you that that although this program sometimes may appear controversial to some, we get so many lanter is on a regular basis of people thanking us for reuniting them with their family members and people who are homeless themselves whose lives have really turned around by getting reconnected to family and friends. we're very proud of the work of this program and very excited mr bravo was here and it's going to be able to share some of his thoughts. mr bravo was there, and was able to share some thoughts. we will try to reconnect quickly. but while we are doing that, i want to share some of the homeward bound stories in addition to mr bravo's. one gentleman that we have been made aware of was homeless in san francisco and reunited with his family in north carolina and is getting his master's degree at yale. we have another individual just

recently, maybe four or five months ago, he was a senior citizen who ended off -- ended on the streets and was not really sure where she was exactly. and we were able to bring these guys over here and find her family member and return her to her family. escorted her back to where she was and she is suffering from dementia and we were able to reconnect her with her family. we also have so many stories of people going back to tennessee in chicagand chicago and peoplee bay area and folks were able to reconnect with their people. i think it is an incredibly important part of it recovering from homelessness. like a not everybody has family or friends they can return to that when they can, one of the processes and healing and recovery from the trauma of being homeless is having people around you who care about you. i think there's no better medicine than that. we are really proud of the homeward bound program.

i think we are going to end up having to conclude. let's get a last-minute technical failure. the mayor spoke briefly about mr bravo's story but his son was on the streets of san francisco suffering from severe mental health issues, we were able to make a connection with him and get him reunited with his father in reno and is now receiving intensive mental health support in order to help the sun get back on his feet again and be the best person that he can possibly be and this would not have happened without the homeward bound program. i think at this point we will go ahead and conclude the program. thank you very much for being here today. [applause] [♪]

good morning, welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for today's meeting of may 8, 2018. our clerk, could you please call the roll. >> roll